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Embattled R&B singer R. Kelly has been transferred to a federal jail in New York City ahead of his trial, scheduled to start this summer. USA Today reports that Kelly is listed as an inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as of Wednesday. He arrived at the jail on Tuesday afternoon …

Acclaimed singer and star of BET’s “The Encore,” Nivea, has opened up about R. Kelly making advances at her when she was younger. The revelation came out during a recent interview with Angela Yee’s “Lip Service.” The conversation was surrounding dating older men, and the “Complicated” singer revealed that she’d …

WLS-TV reports that two key attorneys for R. Kelly have requested to withdraw from the singer’s pending federal sex trafficking prosecution in Brooklyn, barely two months before it is slated to begin. On Monday, attorneys Steven Greenberg and Michael Leonard filed withdrawal forms that have yet to be authorized. Greenberg …

R. Kelly’s federal trial for racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, kidnapping, forced labor, and enticement will start in a Brooklyn courtroom on Aug. 9th. According to Billboard, U.S. Judge Ann M. Donnelly set the trial date. Both the prosecution and Kelly’s attorneys agreed that they were ready to proceed …

After finding that The Isley Brothers performed R. Kelly songs on “Verzuz,” viewers were understandably surprised and outraged. The Isley Brothers used their R. Kelly era to take on the “Let’s Groove” hitmakers on the newest episode of Verzuz. The group sang songs like “Contagious” and “Busted,” which were written …

R. Kelly is now fully vaccinated, having received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine while incarcerated and awaiting trial in Chicago. Sources told TMZ that the Bureau of Prisons at MCC Chicago administered the first dose to the R&B singer in January and the second dose last month. So far, 128 staff …

A judge delayed R. Kelly’s trial for racketeering and sex trafficking in New York on Tuesday, citing a slew of roadblocks resulting from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  Page Six reports that Brooklyn Federal Judge Ann Donnelly pushed the start of the singer’s trial back to August 9. Kelly’s case has been postponed three …

R. Kelly is set to go to trial in less than three months, and now his attorneys are accusing prosecutors of withholding evidence in his case.  A motion was filed on Sunday in Brooklyn federal court, and Kelly’s attorney Michael Leonard argued the evidence should have been turned over months …

R&B singer R.Kelly will go to trial in Chicago for child pornography and obstruction charges next year. However, the federal trial is set for September. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenwber set the trial to begin September 12, 2021, but expects the date to change because of the pandemic. Kelly pleaded not …

As Robert Kelly awaits his day in court for several sex crime charges, a judge has ordered him to pay his back rent. Despite the disgraced singer claiming he’s broke, Cook County Judge Patrick Heneghan ruled that “Sony is directed and ordered to turn over any sums accruing to Kelly’s …

R.Kelly abuse survivor Azriel Clary plans to release her full story on the Fanbase App. Clary was only 17 years old when she and R.Kelly started dating. She has been cited many times in publicly taking to the R&B singer’s defense. Clary was his current girlfriend and still living in …

R. Kelly’s former manager, Donnell Russell, is currently in talks of a plea deal for stalking an anonymous “Jane Doe” victim in Kelly’s sexual abuse case. Nadia Shihata, an Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, revealed that Russell was currently in talks of a plea deal …

According to a judge’s ruling, R. Kelly’s Brooklyn federal racketeering and sex trafficking case will be heard by an anonymous jury that will be partially sequestered. The decision was handed down by U.S. District Judge Ann M. Donnelly issued on October 8 and unsealed last week. “Empaneling an anonymous jury …

Attorneys for R. Kelly claims a video shows that no one at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, where the troubled singer is being held, “raised a finger” during a brutish beating he suffered in August. According to CNN, a report from the Bureau of Prisons claims a prison employee …

An appeals court in New York upheld the decision by a federal judge on Tuesday to keep R. Kelly behind bars while he awaits multiple trials on child pornography charges, Billboard reports. R. Kelly’s attorney argued that he should be granted bail after being attacked by an inmate last month …